[07-MAR-2016] Current status of BLF upgrade process

Via Your BLF Avatar - #242 by DavidEF

Ok let me add that I really want the old subscription service back! :open_mouth: It took me 10 minutes to find this thread again! LOL

Also, when I click on a user you can no longer see their created threads. I have now manually subscribed here. I keep forgetting I have to do that now. I don’t know if we need an auto subscribe just for looking but if I post in a thread I want to do the polite thing and respond to people especially if they’re saying something in response to what I’ve said so subscribing upon adding a comment would be great.

I checked your screenshot and that’s about how mine looks too. It’s probably just a result of the “big picture” effect of increasing the text size. It’s actually amount of vertical space for every post that’s taking up so much space now in my eyes. I was wondering if that space could be “coded” into less white. For example if I don’t post anything as a signature I don’t need those extra “X” amount of lines at the bottom of my replies. Could it only expand if there is something in there? A buddy of mine knows quite a bit about PHP coding so I can run it by him too. Maybe it’s just not reasonable to do. I didn’t think the text size needed increasing but I assume that’ not popular opinion since it was worked into this upgrade. It’s just my opinion so if everyone else likes it that’s fine. Whatever the final outcome I’m here for the long haul. You run a great site here my friend. :beer:

Thanks for all the work !

Vastly better to have the URL gobbledygook hidden behind human-readable text! It’s supposed to be “HyperText”, after all. Maybe just not parsing URLs at all in the comment body (i.e. render them as plain text) would be easier on everybody? Then if anyone chooses to paste a URL, the reader(s) can do whatever they choose to do with it.

PS: When I Save a Post it doesn’t Subscribe me to that Thread. I Saved my account subscription settings to test, here, if that fixes the problem. BRB…

Correct, that’s still broken.

If you look at my screenshot, you’ll see that those are short one-liner posts, but the vertical space is unavoidable because the user’s name, avatar, post count, and join stats also take up vertical space.

@sb: I did some googling and found this image...

Does it look familiar?

yes, a button i would prefer to delete

I don't like it either, but it looks a lot better than what we have right now.

perhaps we should replace what we have now with a two step authentication (which could work with your button)

Thanks, man. I won’t bug you about it. The new forum looks awesome!

Thanks too for dealing with all our “issues” so gracefully!! If anyone else wants the post-level Subject line back, we can get the exact same effect by just typing a Subject line at the top of the post, hitting < Enter > twice and going on with it. Mischief managed!

(PS: I always Preview. It appears typing the Left Broket (shift-comma) and a character, starts it parsing HTML. So (e.g.) to enter < Enter > surround “Enter” with spaces.)

As long as sb can do it, that sounds like a great idea.

Can we add automated multi quoting, perhaps select the threads you want then hit reply and all are available to be replied to

Sb, thank you Very Much for all the tedious work you are currently doing, it is Greatly Appreciated. :beer: :beer:

Best Regards,
George

Oh, I always typed _the_ as ==_the_==. The double-equal is short-hand for temporarily disabling the markup language.

I didn’t realize the @ inline code block short-hand would prevent URL detection.

Putting an @ on both sides of something often gives me problems though, like if I want to list numbers. The following list should have three items, each with an @ in the middle:

  • 1000 lm @ 3000mA
  • 500 lm @ 1500mA
  • 250 lm @ 750mA

To make it work, I need to escape the @ symbols:

  • 1000 lm @ 3000mA
  • 500 lm @ 1500mA
  • 250 lm @ 750mA

Basically, the @ symbol does special things even when it’s surrounded by spaces and there are newlines between. It’s a good idea to write ==@== any time you want an actual @ symbol, or it might interfere with other formatting.

I think I’m noting these things mostly for other people’s benefit, in case they’re not used to the simple post editor.

Gotcha. Yes I do see that now. Maybe a better example is a couple posts up. Look at all the blank space below Bort’s posts #239 and #241. That’s more like what I’m trying to point out.

This is the main thing which keeps biting me.

I hadn’t noticed, but I don’t miss it. It was just another way of saying how many posts someone had.

Heh, I like plain text ones :) , but I never much cared for the graphical ones. :slight_smile:

This set in particular seems to have some extra white pixels around them though, which looks weird when the background isn’t white. IIRC the old set was more background-agnostic.

I tried to reduce empty space somewhat on the dark theme. There still seems to be a minimum height for posts though, and some other extra space I haven’t figured out how to collapse.

I could get behind having a way to ‘like’ posts and maybe a karma point system based on how many likes a person has received… To avoid drama though, a ‘dislike’ option might not be a good idea.

Until/unless the base forum software supports that, I doubt it. That would be quite a pain to implement… and for now we can do it manually when needed.

I’m not sure how hard it would be to change the post template structure, but one thing which might help is to put the div for top/edit/delete/quote/reply/spam buttons inside the message body div instead of on a row of its own.

It might also be nice, if it’s not a lot of trouble, to make the simple post interpreter ignore newlines after a closing quote tag. Like, if there is a newline (or two) immediately after
[/quote]
, don’t convert it into a <br /> break tag like it normally would. Just as a minor cleanup kind of thing, since otherwise it has a blank line between quoted text and the reply. It already appears to eat a newline or two before a quote, but not after.

That’s not a forum issue. That’s because Bort has this in his signature:
<table border="0" style="width: 837px; height: 179px;"><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table>

Not sure why it’s there, but it can be hidden with a small bit of (possibly-overzealous) CSS:
div.clear table { display: none; }

Or you can hide signatures entirely:
div.clear { display: none; }

As a default site-wide style, it might be nice to make signature text a little smaller:
div.clear { font-size: 70%; }

Busted! :smiley:

I would very much like this too, but I’m almost sure it’s not possible with this forum engine.